Graduate doctors still working in Malta

wmk

Jul 13th 2008, 19:23

I am planning to come Malta, fresh graduate , but i came to know that its very difficult to find house job there .but what would be the basic salary of a junior doctor.plz reply

wakkar.masood@gmail.com

Marius Grima

Jun 14th 2008, 21:11

A separate survey performed showed that the absence of a high quality, accredited, post-graduate medical training (PGT) in Malta, with strong collaborating partners/institutions from abroad was the main reason for junior doctors to leave (and not the better-pay prospects). In the absence of a good PGT programme, Malta will continue to suffer from a brain-drain of doctors, with all its social and finical implications.

(Comment in 3 parts)

Marius Grima

Jun 14th 2008, 21:11

Year - Graduated - Leaving - Remaining - Leaving (%)
2003 - 37 - 15 - 22 - 41
2004 - 68 - 28 - 40 - 41
2005 - 62 - 14 - 48 - 23
2006 - 47 - 15 - 32 - 32
2007 - 60 - 22 - 38 - 37
2008 - 52 - 21 - 31 - 40
Total - 326 - 115 - 211 - 35

It became evident that the ‘popular belief’ was proven to be correct, and that by the end of 2008, 35% of the junior doctors who graduated in Malta in the period 2003-2008 would no longer be working as trainee doctors within the Maltese public health care service.
This is a problem both for those who are leaving (relocating your personal and professional career is never easy) and those who are staying (there will be much greater pressure at work with an increasing workload and a decreasing workforce). One can only imagine what this would bring to the whole of the health care system in Malta.

Marius Grima

Jun 14th 2008, 21:10

There’s a lot of speculation and rumours surrounding the junior-doctor-mass-exodus-issue, and a lot of uncertainty and a ‘snow-ball’ effect (i.e. all junior doctors saying they are trying to leave Malta) were created. To try to clarify this issue as much as possible, and to have a clearer picture of what is exactly going on, the junior doctors themselves performed an exercise within themselves to determine who exactly was leaving on named-doctor bases.
We tried to collect the real figures of those junior doctors who, by the end of 2008, will no longer be working within the public sector. The figures for the doctors who are leaving and who graduated between 2003 and 2007 were verified by the doctor-leaders of each year. The figures for 2008 (the current fifth year medical students) are indicative figures as provided by the student-leaders after an anonymous survey that was conducted. The results were:

Andrew Cassar

Jun 14th 2008, 18:08

The governement offers 1 year unpaid emigration leave....so all those who have left are all technically still on the governements list. But obviously....they are not working in malta anymore. The PQ was about the lack of doctors.

Kristian Zammit

Jun 14th 2008, 14:19

@ andrew cassar
They would be on unpaid leave, and therefore still employed with the public service, for the minister's purpose... therefore you are both right.

Andrew Cassar

Jun 14th 2008, 09:40

Someone here is giving the minister false information!!!! I know people who have graduated in 2005 and 2006 who are working in the UK!!!